Special Guest: Professor Gabriel Egan – Computational Approaches to the Study of Shakespeare

SONNETCAST – William Shakespeare's Sonnets Recited, Revealed, Relived

In this special episode, Gabriel Egan, Professor of Shakespeare Studies and Director of the Centre for Textual Studies at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK, talks to Sebastian Michael about computational approaches to the study of Renaissance literature in general and to Shakespeare's works in particular: what are the methodologies employed and what insights can they yield, especially in the context of the Sonnets.